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Teaching Leaders MA Session 2
Teaching Leaders MA Session 2
Andy Davies
Keith Turvey
Richard Wallis
MA Education (Teaching Leaders)
KV721 Professional Enquiry
2013/14 (Session 2)
How was it for you?
Re-Introductions
KV721 Professional Enquiry
Session Aims
To examine the process of critical
engagement with research literature
To begin to identify and critique
relevant research literature
To provide an opportunity to discuss
the focus of individual projects with
tutors
To reflect upon initial writing task and
plan for ways forwards
Defining criticality
Evidence What counts?
Research literature?
Experience?
Theory?
Observation?
Anecdote?
Letter?
A statistic?
Charles Darwin
Toolkits and effect size Job done?
Intervention design
What kind of intervention could be appropriate for my professional context?
Intervention design
What do we know about past interventions?
Group goals
Individual
accountability
Researching an intervention
The next stage
What is my intervention?
What does the literature say?
What is the quality of the
evidence in this area?
So what?
Image: Falling time by
Samuel John (Flickr)
Afternoon programme
Meet in room LRC106 in the basement of the library